Arsene Wenger: I signed this Arsenal player after watching him on TV

Ljungberg joined Arsenal for a fee of £3million in 1998 and went on to win two Premier League titles, three FA Cups and a Champions League runners-up medal in nearly 10 years at the club.The 39-year-old, who is now assistant manager at Wolfsburg, is fondly remembered by Arsenal fans.Arsene Wenger bought Ljungberg without watching him play live, admitting he was convinced by his performance in Sweden’s 2-1 Euro 2000 qualifying victory over England in September 1999.

“I saw Freddie Ljungberg giving a hell of a lot of problems to Martin Keown while watching him on television as he played for Sweden against England,” the Gunners boss said in book ‘The Wenger Revolution: Twenty Years of Arsenal’.“I decided to buy him then. He became a huge Arsenal player.”Last season Ljungberg worked at Arsenal’s Academy coaching the club’s Under-15s before moving to Wolfsburg in February.